gores

Triangular fabric inserts

Gores is the plural of gore, with meanings that depend on which gore is meant.

A gore is a triangular piece of fabric sewn into a garment or sail to add fullness: The skirt's gores gave it a flowing shape.

In another sense, gore is blood that has been shed, especially when clotted or dried: The horror film was full of gore.

As a verb, to gore is what a bull or other horned animal does when it stabs with its horns: The matador was gored during the fight.

So gores can be fabric panels, acts of horn-stabbing, or instances of bloody mess.

garment

panel

Distinct flat section

  • skirtWaist-hung lower garment
  • flareSudden bright burst
  • A-lineFitted-top flared garment

insert · triangular · dressmaking · sewing · silhouette · draping · hemline · umbrella · parachute · sail

geography

triangular

Three-cornered in form

  • mapSpatial representation of terrain
  • segmentDistinct part of whole
  • sectorDistinct division of whole

wedge · spherical · cartography · projection · division · section · land · tract · surveying

blood

splatter

Scatter in drops

bloodshed · gruesome · macabre · slaughter · horror · grisly · violent · graphic · massacre · butchery

impalement

horn

Pointed animal headgear

  • tuskExtended external tooth
  • pierceMake hole through
  • stabPierce with point

bullfighting · matador · toro · rodeo · charging · trampling · bovine · buffalo · wounded · attack

Categories
Opposites
physical action/harm

goresshields

Protective barriers for defense

protects · heals · defends · guards · misses

garment construction technique

goresdarts

Thrown pointed missiles

pleats · gathers · tucks · seams · panels

panel shape

goresrectangles

Four-sided, all right angles

squares · flat panels

Phrases
Family

gory, gore, gored, goring, goriest, goriness

Familiarity
Top 500,000
Profile
Used worldwide · Timeless · Concrete · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated PG